Made a spline-based tree root generator. To further test Spline Mesher's conforming feature. This'll come in handy! #gamedev #unity3d #pcg

Dusted off my contact shadows implementation and reworked it for Render Graph in Unity 6.3 URP. First commit was 5 years ago, perhaps time to see it through? 😄 Here's a few examples with it off/on 🪄 #unity3d #indiedev #gamedev

Spline Spawner is an advanced companion for level design and world building. Rocket powered by Burst/Jobs 🚀 And it's 70% off for the next 24 hours only! 🔗https://u3d.as/3rFv?aid=1011l7Uk8&pubref=twitter

Spline Mesher can take any input mesh and repeat it along a Spline. So I figured, why not use a Spline mesh as an input? A straightforward notion that results in classical profile sweeping! ✨ #unity3d #gamedev #pcg #techart

Added snapping functionality, it snaps a vertex to the nearest linear knot. Even with large triangles, it'll ensure the mesh follows the contour perfectly! #pcg #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev

Fruitful morning! Increased performance of fill mesh generation by a blistering 2600%! Spline points are now cached and vertices are processed in parallel on all cores 🚀 Makes for very smooth iteration. #unity3d #pcg #gamedev #indiedev

Implemented surface conforming for the Spline Area mesh component! Makes the mesh snap down to the underlying colliders. Will be interesting to see if it can be used to make golf courses 😄 #unity3d #gamedev #pcg

The spline "area mesh" functionality for Spline Mesher 2.0 is shaping up! Here is an example of the height displacement capabilities, it doesn't have to be flat! 😄 #indiedev #gamedev #unity3d #pcg #proggen

Spotted Spline Mesher in the wild! Dominik Hackl (Pianova Games) is using it to create a roller coaster physics puzzle game called "Coaster Crash Course" store.steampowered.com/app/3962470/... #indiedev #unity3d #gamedev

Spline Mesher released back in March 2024, and has been proven pivotal in some projects! A few major, long requested, features are pushing for a reworked version, which I've started on. So far it's shaping up well! #unity3d #indiedev #gamedev

Unity 6.2 introduces "MeshLOD", functionality to auto-generate LODs for imported meshes. I've made an editor utility to export them an FBX file. You can find it on GitHub here, and install it through the Package Manager: github.com/staggartcrea... #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

The Spline Spawner asset is now available on the Unity Asset Store! It launches with a 50% discount for 2 weeks. 🔗 u3d.as/3rFv?aid=101...

Trying my hand at creating isoline splines from a terrain, using marching squares to trace the heightfield. Getting crude but promising results ✨ Picture this: automatic shoreline tracing for lakes and beaches, or simply cool terrain visualization! 🤯 #gamedev #unity3d

For the next 24 hours only you can get the Spline Mesher asset for 70% off! #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d 🔗 u3d.as/3fWU?aid=101...

Put together a component to create a set of new splines running parallel to another one! So far extremely useful for side objects along rivers and paths #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

The Spline Spawner asset is nearing the end of its beta! Masking is the last major feature added, a powerful way to prevent objects from spawning near or within other splines. #unity3d #madewithunity #indiedev #gamedev

Set up Rage Run Games's new Kayak Controller to work with Stylized Water 3 🏄 #indiedev #unity3d

Transformed Unity's "Karting Microgame" project into a jetski playground 🏄 In the most unorthodox way... by driving on an invisible floating plane 😄 #indiedev #gamedev #vfx

The Underwater Rendering extension for Stylized Water 3 is now available! Reworked completely for Unity 6, with some welcome new features and effects, including mobile VR support! 🤿 🔗 u3d.as/3ypg #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #vfx

Getting around to testing Underwater Rendering v3 on mobile VR. Performance has significantly improved thanks to a better technical approach 🚀 It will be available to dive into on the Unity Asset Store soon! 🤿 #gamedev #unity3d #vr #digitalart

Underwater Rendering for Stylized Water 3 is nearing completion! A collection of bubble effects are being added, for ambience or character breathing/movement. #vfx #gamedev #unity3d

Spline Mesher v1.2.3 now includes assets and examples for vertex-animated bunting. This shader graph demonstrates how the baked-in gradients can be used for masking. 🔗 u3d.as/3fWU

Tried out a different way to render water caustics by using an animated flipbook of pre-rendered caustics. Looks a lot more lifelike! #gamedev #unity3d #indiegamedev

Terrains only accept textures, so finetuning colors becomes a hassle! I've created a little utility that converts a Color into a usable Terrain Layer! Makes for quick prototyping! #gamedev #unity3d #indiegamedev 🔗 https://gist.github.com/staggartcreations/9756530d4521b46be14eb3acbcd3b707

Reworked my spline-based prefab spawner to work with Unity's native spline tool! Got to flesh out plenty of new ideas, it now does just about everything! 🚀 🔗A download to a preview version is available on Discord if you're already a user of the "Spline Mesher" asset #gamedev #unity3d #indiegamedev

Pleased to annouce that Stylized Water 3 for Unity 6 is now available! 😊 All the deets and more👇 u3d.as/3j7n?aid=1011l…

The new World Building roadmap for Unity is looking great! Terrain is a particular aspect that's been drenched in, and restricted by, legacy tech for well over a decade. By extension vegetation rendering will finally be modernized 🥳

🎮 PSA: FPS is often used to gauge a game's runtime performance, but can be a completely misleading metric! This ancient, but ever relevant, article by Robert Dunlop is still a must read! 🔗 mvps.org/directx/articl…

Well, so long Unity forums 🥲 A decade of community discussions wiped from the web and morphed into an 𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔯𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔱 😬 Will I ever see a line of BBCode again in my life? 🧓

It's 2024, and 6 new-years resolutions later. I think I can finally accept that I just won't ever learn to use Houdini 😅🧙‍♂️

I'd love to see what you're working, share feature previews, gauge opinions and gather feature requests. But most of all, consolidate all of that into a neat package😊 Henceforth, support for all of my assets will move into a Discord server! 🔗 discord.gg/GNjEaJc8gw

Can I use this spline tool in Unity 2021.3? This question comes around regularly. The answer is yes! Though the "Splines" package won't appear in the Package Manager in this version, but you can install it manually like so:

Off to #Unite2023! Armed with dozens of asset store vouchers I'm destined to pass in conversation 😊 Packed day ahead, looking forward to it!

The quest for raytraced shadows in URP inches forward! Got temporal filtering working to some extend, but only halfway there. TIL denoising is a whole field of research, and I'm only skimming the surface 😆 #unity3d

pCube1, polySurface1, default, lambert1. The four horseman of the organizational apocalypse.

Getting around to processing some branch scans captured last fall around Vancouver, which are turning out quite well! #gameart

🌞 can i have a refund 🌟 May I ask why? 🌞 i need money for xmas gifts 🌟 That's not how this works... 🌞 ★☆☆☆☆ beware scammer 🤡

Apologies for the late replies to DM's and mentions! It's always a pleasure to see my stuff used in your projects, so thank you! 🥰 Yet, I also needed a break from Twitter for a while. I do feel sprung back into shape and have a project in the barrel to show very soooon 🌈🌟

Some background on how I'm rendering the water line, because it's almost arcane 🪄 #unity3d The key goal is figuring out if a certain pixel on the screen is above, or below water. This in turn can be used to apply effects to a specific part of the screen.

Whipped up a script that acts as a quick front-end for "Shader.SetGlobalXXX". For setting up global shader parameter values. #unity3d #gamedev Should have done this years ago! You can grab it here: gist.github.com/staggartcreati…

Today marks the day I've been self-employed for 5 years! 🥳 No sage wisdom to share, but it should be no secret that I still feel fortunate and privileged to have complete freedom in a fulfilling job! 😊

The terrain painting tool I made a little while ago is now up for grabs on the Unity asset store! #gamedev #unity3d 🔗 bit.ly/3ut5UNv

Fresh Lori screenie from @Lake_The_Game. Added a time freeze dev option, so it's easier to capture these animation poses. Probably my favorite character😀#gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

My trusty GPU has been retired. Hopefully I can do a fellow game dev, stuck with a potato PC, a favor. Drop a comment and I'll randomly (RnG) pick one, and send it to you! Do consider giving some else a chance, if you can already afford one😉

Picked this up by coincidence, when I flipped it over I noticed this game uses some of the asset I've made. Always a little unreal to see, especially now in physical form 😀

Version 1.1.0 of my Stylized Grass Shader package is now live! Includes a number of improvements, and a scalemap feature, allowing grass to scale based on painted terrain materials #unity3d #gamedev Coincidentally now 50% off until the 23rd! bit.ly/3kg4wrV

Published a free "Replace Selected" utility on the Unity asset store. Simple enough, but saved me a lot of time on numerous occasions. #gamedev #unity3d #indiedev Available here: bit.ly/3hX3ccn

Made a screenshot utility for Unity several years ago, for portfolio shots. Been refining it ever since, realizing this, I decided to make it freely available on the asset store! #gamedev #unity3d You can grab it here: bit.ly/3hBLkDH

Got a fold able blue screen, and a dry overcast day came around to finally try out photo scanning branches. Results are fairly usable for a first try, probably need to find a sheet of matte glass to flatten them down

Had a jolt of inspiration for a weekend code project. Ended up making a procedural vegetation spawner, based on general spawn chance, height, slope, convexity and terrain layers. #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday